Seattle Mariners vs Oakland Athletics
August 6, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 6, 1988 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Seattle Mariners and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Seattle Mariners 4, Oakland Athletics 5

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Reynolds 2b 3 0 2 0
Fields rf 4 1 1 0
Brantley cf 4 0 1 1
Davis dh 2 1 0 0
Balboni 1b 4 1 2 3
Bradley c 4 0 0 0
Coles lf 4 0 0 0
Presley 3b 4 0 0 0
Quinones ss 4 1 1 0
Swift p 0 0 0 0
  Reed p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 7 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Jennings lf 4 1 1 0
  Gallego 2b 0 0 0 0
Henderson cf 5 0 2 0
  Polonia pr 0 0 0 0
Canseco rf 4 1 0 0
Lansford 3b 4 1 1 1
McGwire 1b 4 2 3 1
Baylor dh 3 0 1 0
Steinbach c 4 0 3 3
Hubbard 2b 3 0 1 0
  Phillips ph 1 0 0 0
  Javier lf 0 0 0 0
Weiss ss 4 0 1 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 13 5
Seattle 001 003 000471
Oakland 000 130 0015130
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Swift   4.2 11 4 4 2 2
  Reed   0.1 1 0 0 1 0
  Jackson  L (6-3) 3.2 1 1 0 1 6
Totals
8.2
13
5
4
4
8
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Burns   7.0 7 4 4 2 3
  Nelson  W (7-3) 2.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
3
4

  E–Jackson (1).  DP–Seattle 1.  HR–Seattle Balboni (16,6th inning off Burns 2 on, 1 out).  SF–McGwire (4,off Jackson).  IBB–Lansford (4,by Jackson).  CS–Reynolds (22,2nd base by Burns/Steinbach).  SB–Steinbach (2,2nd base off Reed/Bradley); Canseco (30,2nd base off Jackson/Bradley).  WP–Burns (2).  IBB–Jackson (6,Lansford).  U-HP–Terry Cooney, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Tim Welke, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–2:58.  A–30,574.
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